Tattoos - Philosophy for Everyone

I Ink, Therefore I Foreword x
Rocky RakovicI Am, Therefore I Ink: An Introduction to Tattoos - Philosophy for Everyone: I Ink, Therefore I Am xiv
Robert ArpAcknowledgments xxviiSHEET I THE HISTORY AND NATURE OF TATTOOS 11 Tattoos and the Tattooing Arts in Perspective: An Overview and Some Preliminary Observations 3
Charles Taliaferro and Mark Odden2 How to Read a Tattoo, and Other Perilous Quests 14
Juniper EllisSHEET II TATTOOS AND ART 273 Are Tattoos Art? 29
Nicolas Michaud4 Fleshy Canvas: The Aesthetics of Tattoos from Feminist and Hermeneutical Perspectives 38
Kimberly Baltzer-Jaray and Tanya RodriguezSHEET III THE TATTOOED WOMAN 515 Female Tattoos and Graffiti 53
Thorsten Botz-Bornstein6 Painted Fetters: Tattooing as Feminist Liberation 65
Nancy KangSHEET IV PERSONAL IDENTITY 817 Tattoo You: Personal Identity in Ink 83
Kyle Fruh and Emily Thomas8 Illusions of Permanence: Tattoos and the Temporary Self 96
Rachel C. Falkenstern9 My Tattoo May Be Permanent, But My Memory of It Isn't 109
Clancy SmithSHEET V EXPRESSIONS OF FREEDOM 12110 Tattoos are Forever: Bodily Freedom and the (Im)possibility of Change 123
Felipe Carvalho11 Bearing the Marks: How Tattoos Reveal Our Embodied Freedom 135
Jonathan HeapsSHEET VI EXPERIENCES AND STORIES SURROUNDING TATTOOS 14912 Never Merely 'There': Tattooing as a Practice of Writing and a Telling of Stories 151
Wendy Lynne Lee13 Something Terribly Flawed: Philosophy and 'The Illustrated Man' 165
Kevin S. DeckerSHEET VII ETHICAL CONCERNS 17914 The Vice of the Tough Tattoo 181
Jennifer Baker15 To Ink, or Not To Ink: Tattoos and Bioethics 193
Daniel Miori16 Writing on the Body: The Modern Morality of the Tattoo 206
Simon WoodsSHEET VIII EASTERN AND RELIGIOUS PERSPECTIVES 21917 Is a Tattoo a Sign of Impiety? 221
Adam Barkman18 Confessions of a Tattooed Buddhist Philosopher 230
Joseph J. Lynch19 An Atheist and a Theist Discuss a Cross Tattoo and God's Existence 242
Robert ArpNotes on Contributors 261